Results for "Peg Leg Sam"

Peg Leg Sam

Born: December 18, 1911

Kickin' It

By Peg Leg Sam

Label: 32 Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Peg Leg Sam (harmonicas, vocals); Charles Henry "Baby" Tate, Henry "Rufe" Johnson (guitars)

Peg Leg Sam: Kickin' It

by Ed Kopp
December 1, 2000

The late Peidmont blues harpist Peg Leg Sam (real name Arthur Jackson) was a true ramblin' bluesman who lost his right leg in 1930 when he tried to hop a freight train in North Carolina. When he wasn't riding the rails, the South Carolinian worked as an entertainer with a medicine show run by “Chief Thundercloud," ...